Are the attacks on academic freedom after 9/11 a passing storm, or do they representa structural shift that undermines one of the pillars of democratic societies? This book bringstogether some of this
This volume, which accompanies a major retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, offers the first comprehensive survey of Graham's work. The book's design evokes magazine
The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, andarchitecture. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a newform of literacy t
The first book to present the common mathematical foundations of big data analysis across a range of applications and technologies.Today, the volume, velocity, and variety of data are increasing rapid
An analyses of the relations created by the curatorial―relations that also constitute it.In spite of the heightened interest in the curatorial since the late twentieth century, the structural conditio
An illustrated examination of Beverly Buchanan's 1981 environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination.Marsh Ruins (1981) is an environmental sculpture by the African American ar
A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.Between 1967 and 1971 Rose Simpson lived with the Incredible String Band (Mike H
At the heart of medical history is a deep enigma.The true structure and workings ofthe human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But then we lookinto the past, and
In this long-awaited book, Claudio Lomnitz tells a groundbreaking story about theexperiences and ideology of American and Mexican revolutionary collaborators of the Mexicananarchist Ricardo Flores Mag
A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwritingBob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan's Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan's compositions.It studies Dylan, not as a pop hero, but as an artist, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric, it traces Dylan's innovative use of musical form, his complex manipulation of poetic diction, and his dialogues with other artists, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan's earliest experiments with the blues, through his mastery of rock and country, up to his densely allusive recent recordings, Timothy Ha
In this compelling work, Ariella Azoulay reconsiders the political and ethical statusof photography. Describing the power relations that sustain and make possible photographic meanings,Azoulay argues
In The Wicked Queen, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the mythification of oneof the most infamous queens in all history, whose execution still fascinates us today. Almost assoon as Marie-Antoin
Tony Conrad has significantly influenced cultural developments from minimalism tounderground film, "concept art," postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rockand roll. Creator of the "str
This book introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s Hans Sedlmayr (1896-1984) and Otto Pacht (1902-1988) undertook an amb
What remains of moral judgment when truth itself is mistrusted, when the validity of every belief system depends on its context, when power and knowledge are inextricably entangled? Is a viable moral
From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a newlogic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives andpolitical argument
Since the middle of the eighteenth century, political thinkers of all kinds--radicaland reactionary, professional and amateur--have been complaining about "bureaucracy." Butwhat, exactly, are they com
Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing toexplain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we wouldbecome as mute as things ar
